Cloud Architecture
Designed Before It's Built
Most cloud problems are architecture problems that surfaced eighteen months late. We design cloud environments around your workload, your compliance boundary, and your team's real operating capacity, then migrate you into them without an outage or a surprise invoice.
What Is Cloud Architecture and Migration?
Cloud architecture is the design of how an application's compute, storage, networking, identity, and data services fit together on a cloud platform. Migration is the work of moving an existing estate into that design safely, with the business still running throughout.
The failure mode is well known. A team lifts servers into cloud virtual machines, changes nothing about how the system works, and discovers a year later that the bill is higher than the data centre it replaced, resilience never improved, and nobody can rebuild the environment from scratch. That is not a cloud strategy, it is a relocated one.
We start from the workload. What actually needs to be always on, what can scale to zero, what has a data residency constraint, what genuinely benefits from a managed service versus what should stay simple. The architecture follows from those answers, and the migration plan follows from the architecture.
What Our Cloud Architecture Services Include
Cloud Assessment & Landing Zones
Account structure, network topology, identity, logging, and guardrails established before the first workload lands, so governance is a property of the platform rather than a policy document.
Migration Planning & Execution
Wave planning, dependency mapping, cutover runbooks, and rehearsed rollback for every move, on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform or Pulumi definitions for every environment, so production can be rebuilt from a repository and drift is detected rather than discovered.
Resilience & Disaster Recovery
Multi-zone design, backup and restore that has actually been tested, and recovery objectives agreed with the business rather than assumed by engineering.
Networking & Security Architecture
Segmentation, private connectivity, secrets management, and least-privilege identity designed in, with an audit trail that satisfies a security review.
Hybrid & Multi-Cloud
Pragmatic designs where regulation, latency, or existing investment mean part of the estate stays where it is, without the complexity tax of pointless portability.
Our Cloud Migration Process
Assess & Inventory
We catalogue what runs today, what depends on what, and what it currently costs. Migrations fail on undocumented dependencies far more often than on technology.
Design the Target
Architecture, landing zone, and cost model agreed on paper first, including the workloads we recommend refactoring and the ones we recommend leaving alone.
Migrate in Waves
Lowest risk workloads first to prove the runbook, then progressively more critical systems, each with a rehearsed cutover and a tested path back.
Optimise & Hand Over
Right-sizing, reserved capacity, and monitoring tuned once real usage data exists, followed by documentation and training so your team owns the platform.
Where Cloud Architecture Work Pays Off
Data Centre Exit
Hardware refresh cycles, colocation contracts, and capacity planning replaced by infrastructure that grows and shrinks with actual demand.
Runaway Cloud Spend
Estates that grew organically and now cost more than they should, restructured around what each workload genuinely needs.
Compliance & Data Residency
Architectures that keep regulated data inside a defined boundary while the rest of the platform benefits from managed services.
Scale Events
Systems that fell over on a launch day or a seasonal peak, redesigned so capacity is a configuration value rather than a crisis.
How We Approach Cloud Migration
We Design for Your Team's Capacity
An architecture only two consultants can operate is a failed architecture. We build what your engineers can run, and we teach them to run it.
Cost Modelled Before Migration
You see the projected monthly bill during design, not after the first invoice. If the numbers do not work, we redesign before anything moves.
Rollback Is Always Rehearsed
Every cutover has a tested path back. Migrations become routine when reversing them is boring.
Common questions,
straight answers.
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They cover the design of a cloud environment, including compute, networking, identity, and data services, and the planned movement of existing systems into it with dependency mapping, rehearsed cutovers, and tested rollback.
A single application typically moves in four to eight weeks. A full estate of dozens of workloads usually runs six to twelve months in waves, with the business operating normally throughout rather than pausing for a cutover weekend.
Only if the architecture changes. Lifting servers into cloud virtual machines usually costs more than the data centre it replaced. Real savings come from right-sizing, managed services, autoscaling, and committed use discounts applied deliberately.
It depends on your workload profile, existing licensing, compliance requirements, and the skills your team already has. We assess all three major providers against your specifics rather than recommending a default.
For most workloads yes, using replication, dual running, and traffic cutover at the load balancer. Where a brief window is unavoidable we schedule it, rehearse it, and keep it measured in minutes.
They become the operators of the new platform. We build the environment as infrastructure as code, document it thoroughly, and run enablement sessions so ownership transfers with the workload.
Often paired with Cloud Architecture & Migration.
Let's talk about
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Planning a migration or fighting an estate that grew faster than the plan? Let's look at what you are running and what it should cost.